Cloud Technical Specialist

Introduction
IBM offers a world-class public cloud. But what sets us and your career apart is our approach to hybrid cloud.
A Technology Sales Engineer role in IBM Cloud means a career where you’re leading prospective clients towards benefiting from using IBM Cloud Paks and Red Hat OpenShift products. It means you’ll be directly impacting their adoption of next-generation hybrid cloud platforms to develop run and manage workloads of some of the world’s most influential enterprises and brands.
Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. Part of a team you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our clients to invest in IBM’s products and services.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Brand Technical Specialist you’ll be the go-to subject matter expert collaborating with colleagues across the wider Sales team – advising and supporting on client engagements throughout the entire sales process.
Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Client Strategy Development: Develop client strategies for IBM Cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Solution Definition: Define compatible IBM Cloud solutions.
• Proof of Concept Creation: Provide proof of concepts and simplify complex technical concepts for client understanding.
• Stakeholder Relationship Building: Build credibility and trust with stakeholders to facilitate the closing of complex Cloud technology deals.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Business Goal Translation: Translate business goals into effective tech solutions.
• Tech Strategy Collaboration: Collaborate on tech strategies for business success.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Stakeholder Influence: Proven track record of influencing diverse senior stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cloud Market Knowledge: Proficiency in cloud market knowledge to provide trusted client advice (training on IBM’s Hybrid Cloud offerings will be provided).